Divorced, Tracy Byrnesis the mother of three children,two girls, ages 7 and 2, and a boy aged 5.

In March of 2011, Jon Stewart showed Tracy Byrnesdefending CEO pay and their contractural bonuses during the crash of 2008: "These poor people paying off mortgages paying off debt, the odds that these people even have this money is slim to none." But battling against teacher salaries and their union contracts: "I think that this is showing a poor example to our kids. People are fighting for things that quite frankly they don't deserve. They need to make concessions."